Fire-rated sealing and fire stopping in Shandon, Edinburgh
We carry out fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps in Shandon and the surrounding area. Send details for a fixed quote.
- Improvised or mixed-product fire seals
- Expanding foam used as fire stopping
- Unsealed penetrations discovered above suspended ceilings
Fire stopping for Shandon sites
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
Fire stopping in Shandon, done properly
Facilities managers in Shandon often find open service penetrations when ceilings come down for other work. If a specification already covers those walls and floors, we can reseal to it using the product and detail it sets out. With no specification in place, the first step sits with your designer or fire engineer, not with us. The enquiries we see most involve open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls and fire-stopping items raised at inspection or handover, across pipe penetrations, linear gaps at wall heads and service gaps in risers. Whoever orders the work in Shandon, the brief is normally the same: a clear scope, tidy work and joints that don’t fail again.
Large city estates in Scotland, from universities to hospitals and offices, are re-serviced constantly, and new cabling and pipework through compartment walls is a common reason fire stopping gets breached. New openings are closed with the specified fire-rated product, following its test evidence.
We sign every job off with a 12-month guarantee. It’s a plain promise: if the work we did fails within twelve months, we return to fix it.
- Place
- Shandon (EH11, EH14, EH10)
- Wider area
- Edinburgh
- Guarantee
- 12 months on every job
- Quotes
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
What sets the cost
There’s no standard rate for sealant work, because every site is different. What we look at:
- Joint width, depth and condition
- The total length or number of joints
- Whether the work must be split into stages
- Travel to remote or island sites
Pricing service penetrations depends on quantities, condition and access, plus any specification you’re working to. Ask us for a fixed quote.
Details that help us quote
For an accurate fixed quote, we need to understand the site. Send us:
- Asbestos survey details if the building is older
- Access details, including height
- What the building is and how it’s used
- Photos of the joints, close up and from further back
Pricing a project or setting a maintenance budget? Send the scope and any drawings, and we’ll return a fixed quote you can plan around. If you have questions first, ring 01277 525 020 or email us.
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Your questions answered
Is a hospital such as Royal Edinburgh Hospital somewhere you can work?
Yes. We work in healthcare settings as well as offices and schools. Each area is agreed with the ward or department and the estates team in advance.
How do Scotland’s building standards affect fire-rated sealant in Shandon?
Scotland’s non-domestic Technical Handbook covers it in clause 2.1.14: penetrations keep at least the element’s fire resistance duration, with products tested for their end use. We install what has been specified, to the manufacturer’s tested detail, while design and approval sit with the designer and the verifier.
Is Shandon in your area?
Yes. Shandon is in our area and the rest of Edinburgh, within our coverage of Greater London, South East England and Scotland. For a quote, give us a call on 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings.
How do you deal with asbestos in old sealant?
Some older mastics, especially in pre-2000 buildings, can contain asbestos. Before we disturb old sealant in an older building, we ask to see the asbestos register or survey, and work stops until any suspect material has been tested. We don’t remove asbestos-containing materials.
How long before the joints can be used?
The product and site conditions decide that. Some products skin over quickly but need longer to cure fully, so we’ll confirm the curing time on the day.
Can one quote cover more than one building?
Yes. Several buildings can share a single quote, with one point of contact across South East England, Greater London and Scotland.
Can you quote from photos?
That depends on the size and complexity of the job. Straightforward work can often be priced from photographs and measurements, while larger or less clear jobs get a site visit first.
Honest limits
We check first that sealant really is the fix. It won’t put right:
- Large openings beyond what any sealant detail covers
- Reviewing a building’s overall fire safety
- Construction that lacks the fire resistance the seal relies on
If in doubt, speak to us on 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form and we will say what we think before you book.
Joints and surfaces we work on
- Cable penetrations
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Pipe penetrations
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Service gaps in risers
- Linear gaps at wall heads
Our process
Tell us your site hours and access windows and we’ll plan around them. On the day, the work area is kept contained and tidy, and we check in with your contact before moving on to each new area. Give us the access times and building rules for your premises in Shandon, so the work can be phased and areas kept in use.
- We start with your penetration schedule, drawings or specification.
- We plan the sequence of floors, risers and voids with you.
- Each opening is checked for wall or floor type, service, gap and depth.
- Foam, ordinary sealant and debris come out first.
- The specified backing and sealant go in to depth and are finished neatly.
- We tell you about openings that need a different product.
Before we start on site
- Arrange parking or a loading space
- Move anything stored against the joints
- Let building users know which areas are affected
Getting a fixed quote
Let us know the site, the scope and your timescale, and a fixed quote will follow. To get it moving, give us a call on 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form.
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Fire stopping in Shandon: the local picture
Shandon has plenty of hotels close by, all within 2 miles. Hotels are divided into compartments, and refurbishments that add pipes and cables through bedroom and corridor walls leave gaps to close. Shandon has seven care or nursing homes no more than 2 miles away. Care homes rely on fire-resisting walls and floors, and maintenance work that breaks through them leaves openings to seal.
Where a unit on an estate such as West Gorgie Park Industrial Estate, which lies west of Shandon, has fire-resisting walls between offices and warehouse, any new service through them should be sealed to the tested detail. For a hospital such as Royal Edinburgh Hospital (0.6 miles south-east of Shandon), penetration sealing is usually phased ward by ward, with infection-control rules agreed first. Hotels like Ardmillan Hotel, under half a mile north of Shandon, are refurbished in phases, and each phase can open up compartment walls.
Shandon is about 1 mile south-west of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh. We cover commercial sites throughout Shandon, for single jobs and planned programmes alike. Shandon is one of 174 places we cover in Edinburgh.
Work on service penetrations is covered throughout EH11, EH14 and EH10, for business premises of every kind. Among the streets we cover are Appin Lane, Cowan Road and Gorgie Road. If your building is just outside Shandon, we cover Polwarth (1 mile south), Gorgie (1 mile west), Westfield (1 mile north-west), Slateford (1 mile south-west) and Holy Corner (1 mile east). A short drive away, we cover Leith (4 miles north-east), Bonnington (3 miles north-east), Pilrig (3 miles north-east), North Leith (3 miles north-east), Queensferry (7 miles north-west) and Powderhall (3 miles north-east).
Around Shandon
Locally, jobs take us to sites close to Harrison Park, Gabrielle Keiller Library and Boroughmuir High School. Also close by are Iain Tomlin School of Music (0.6 miles east) and The Athletic Arms (0.5 miles north-east). For rail, the closest station is Slateford station, about 0.7 miles south-west of the centre. A little further out are Royal Edinburgh Hospital (0.7 miles south-east) and Merchiston Tower (0.6 miles east). Green spaces nearby include Craiglockhart Hill and Dunsapie Loch.
Why it’s worth doing now in Shandon
An open or wrongly sealed service penetration lets fire and smoke reach the next compartment much sooner than the building was designed for. Putting it right is normally a modest job when the openings are accessible. Wait until ceilings close or areas are occupied and the same work becomes harder to reach. Scottish city buildings take plenty of rain, so a split or hardened joint lets water into the wall. Resealing promptly protects the stone and the interior.
No two sites price the same: the joint sizes, the specified product, access and working hours each have a bearing. Send the details and a fixed figure follows.
Why choose Mastic Doctor in Shandon
- Joints cleaned back to sound surfaces
- One number for every site we cover
- Sealing commercial buildings since 2005
- Constructionline member for supplier checks
Take a look at what affects the cost or our accreditations.
Different surfaces, different methods
Cables and cable bundles
Single cables and small bundles are often within a fire-rated sealant’s tested detail. The detail limits bundle size and the gaps between and around cables, so we check before sealing.
Linear joints
Joints at the top of partitions may need to move as the slab above deflects. The specified product and backing for that movement are what goes in.
Looking after the joints
Once the work is signed off, a little attention goes a long way:
- Arrange inspection before areas are covered up
- Don’t let anyone top up a fire seal with the wrong product
- Agree the fire-stopping specification before services go in
- Check with the data sheet before painting over fire sealant
Add risers, plant rooms and ceiling voids to routine fire-stopping checks. Look for cracks, unsealed new cables and gaps that have been enlarged, and report them promptly.
Regular walk-rounds of service areas are worth the time. A cracked or disturbed seal found early is a small job.